To what extent do you hold social media companies responsible for the rise of QAnon, and to what extent do you see it as symptomatic of some deeper sickness in American social and political life? So I don’t think that social media companies created this in any way, but what they are responsible for is helping all those people find each other. And then these companies help spread it and supercharge it and give people a lot of incentives to keep it going forward. I think Facebook and Twitter and YouTube gave them the petri dish in which to grow and now they’re strong enough that they don’t need it anymore. Do you share those concerns, or do you think they’re overblown?

Source: New York Times September 03, 2020 22:30 UTC